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Vanan Murugesan

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1531 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

Go get your own oil out of the Strait of Hormuz.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

And he's been beating them up with tariffs.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Vanan Murugesan - The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

if eventually we end up becoming like a public, like the NPR model, where I think you have, I don't know what's the number, but anywhere between 60 to 70% funded by your audience, right?

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

So, of course, they don't want to help.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

But at the end of the day, we're the United States of America.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

We broke it.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

We got to fix it.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

So it does seem as if the military planners are assuming they're going to go in with some minimal ground invasion of some sort to figure out how to open up the Strait of Hormuz.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Vanan Murugesan - The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

And then the remaining two other, maybe it's foundations, a couple of foundations here and there, but other business ventures.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Vanan Murugesan - The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

I think that is where we need to be, whether we are for profit.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

And once again, once we have we have started a war, we don't know.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Vanan Murugesan - The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

So for profit is going to be like a,

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Vanan Murugesan - The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

paywall system, I guess, if you want to call it, but nonprofit, then people are paying 20 bucks a month, they pay 20 bucks for Netflix, now they're paying $120 a month.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

We don't necessarily have the ability to finish yet.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

We pull up stakes right now.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

All we do is hand Iran more leverage.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Vanan Murugesan - The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

And that's the key piece here.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Vanan Murugesan - The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

Because when we have a lot of majority of our revenue comes from individual donors, then we are not beholden to some of this.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

He walks away.

The Chuck ToddCast
Full Episode - Trump Has No Good Options In Iran + The Importance Of Community-Based Journalism

He's basically handing them more leverage over the Strait of Hormuz than they had before this war started.